Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01

| master and owner, and one OF his sailors
lost their lives, and John Gustavson, the
mate, escaped by swimming ashore ON q
plank.
/ MAYOR HEWITT of New York and a COM
| mittee of the Board Of Aldermen, ap-
/ pointed for the purpose, have sent an in
/ vitation to Mrs. President Cleveland to
/ attend the New York fremen's parade and
| inspection next month and present stand
of colors on that occasion to the fire de-
| partment.
| THERE is now on deposit in the United
States Treasury $4,000 belonging to the
Fidelity Bank Of Cincinnati, which failed
recently. Comptroller Trenholm states
that he expects the amount to reach a
million before the first of next month.
This amount will, of course, be applied to
the claims of creditors.
NATHAN PHIPPs, a coal miner living at
Wildwood, seven miles from Latrobe, Pa,
shot and mortally wounded his friend,
John Robb, on the oath, after which he
terribly injured Mrs. Phipps, by stabbing
her and breaking several Of her ribs. He
| then armed himself with rife and shot
gun and fed to the woods.
| BUCHANAN and adjoining counties in
Missouri are organizing an anti-horse-thief
association.
! THE De Witt County (Ill.) grand jury
has pronounced the court house at Clinton
| unsafe.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER has made a
statement explaining his recent trouble
with the court at Woodstock, Va.
VIsCoUNT DoNERAILAE's death from n.y.
drophobia has shaken the faith of many
in the efficacy of Pasteur's plan of treat
ing rabies.
THE dissatisfaction among the officers of
| the Belgian army at the Kings military
policy is growing. General Brailmont has
resigned.
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE OF Missouri has
offered a reward of $500 for the apprehen-
sion of Rev. West, for the murder of Susie
| Beck.
MEMBERS of the Grand Army had a
demonstration at Wheeling, WA, on the
| Goth. and refused to walk under portrait
of the President.
| ALEXANDER McCUE, Solicitor of the
Treasury, has been appointed Commits
| soner of Fish and Fisheries, to succeed
| Prof Baird, deceased.
| THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
recommended the pardon of Lieutenant
Knight, James A. Brooks and Henry Putt,
convicted of manslaughter at Fort Smith,
Ark.
| VICE-PREsIDENT POTTER of the Union
! Pacific railroad intimates that the com.
| pany would dispose of its coal mines in
| Wyoming if purchaser could be found at
| a reasonable price.
RIGHT Rev. r. W. B. ELLIOT, Bishop of
Western Texas, died at Sewanee, Tenn,
on the night of the Goth, after a protracted
illness.
AT the Cheboygan (Mich.) Lumber Com
pany's mill log carriage was accidently
started ON the evening of the 25th, result
ing in horrible and probably fatal injuries
to Edmund Lapeer and Dan Albright.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
engine-room of Herbert E. Johnson's corn.
canning factory at Gorham, Me-, on the
Goth. One man was killed and a number
OF others seriously injured.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in
gold left the Sub-treasury at st. Louis for
Chicago on the Goth. This is the second
shipment of a like sum to the city on the
lake within three months. The money
was shipped in five barrels of 100000
each, containing twenty bags of $1,000
each.
THE body of Albert Huber, prosperous
farmer in Miami, O.,was found in his corn.
crib on the morning of the Goth, the top of
his head blown off, shotgun by his side
and other circumstances clearly indicating
suicide.
FIRE broke out in w. Fl. Harsh's flour
mill at Winterset, Ia, on the Goth, and de-
stroyed the entire structure, with all its
contents. Loss, $4,000; insurance, S. 900.
The fire is supposed to have originated
from hot box.
THE postal telegraph has been CONSOLE
dated with the Canadian Pacific, and
John W. Mackay retires.
SOME miscreant tried to wreck
train on the Wabash near Danville, ILL.,.
on the Goth, but the scheme was frustrat-
ed.
THE owners Of the fishing schooner Lydia
T. Crowell, of Beverly, Mass, have given
her up for lost. She was ninety-five tons
burthen. 1t is believed that all on board
were lost. She was in charge of Captain
Moses Larkin, of Nova Scotia, and had
crew of fifteen men. She was insured.
THE pleasure yacht Ilfracombe, while
sailing in the Thames on the 26th, turned
back to recover a boat-hook, which had
fallen overheard, when she was struck by
squall and capsized. There were twenty
one persons on board, all of whom were
thrown into the water and twelve Of them
were drowned.